Nice swell this week in the range of way too scary big to more human sized proportions.  The swell seems to be dropping fast today with beautiful hollow DOH A-frames still marching in every 7 minutes or so.  There were a handful of guys out this morning sampling the clean lines on their 7′+ boards to handle all the water moving.  Thinking this afternoon may just get better with the tide.

Here are a few photos shot over the past few days…

One of the best lefts in my neighborhood doing a lumpy version of its thing.  The right is fun too, mostly just a big wall on days like this.

Hard to capture the size and power that a wave out here produces.  Here is a shot of a guy on a respectable board trying to stay close to the power source.

This guy was just milking his all the way to the inside so that he can get as far as he can into the channel before paddling back out.

You’ll get the occasional section that will go top to bottom and start grinding…hard to tee it up, but if you can hang on you get a nice little slingshot action.

Some of the smaller waves had everyone sharing whether they liked it or not.  Karma got this guy out front and he ended up face planting just after this was taken.

The other guy didn’t really have anywhere to go either.

If you were patient you could get one of these which would hold up all the way through.  I had one on Christmas Day that put a grin from ear to ear and cleared the Eggnog fog flowing through me.

Happy New Year!!  2010 here we come!!

Very cool idea that will have you saying ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’

to all!!  These were taken over the past couple days…but today was absolutely epic with only a few lucky ones catching the goods.  I had the wrong lens with me, but may post one shot from today a bit later.  I paddled out at 4:45 and caught the last thirty minutes of light.  Took off on one of the most perfect and solid waves I’ve ever had at OB.  DOH sets and glassy perfection.  What more could you ask for on Christmas!

After all this massive surf the past couple weeks it was nice that my first surf since last week was in the more manageable head high range.  It was a good way to get back into the swing of things.  It’s crazy how out of shape you can get after just a short amount of time.  Surfing my potato chip again didn’t help with that.

The waves had great shape but not too much energy behind them.  The lefts were actually a bit better than the rights for the most part…but I did see a couple nice rights that got away.  Just a bit out of position for them.

Looking forward to getting the early tomorrow; been too long.